Sophist

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872202023
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sophist written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to speak most directly to the interests of contemporary and analytical philosophers. White's extensive introduction explores the dialogue's central themes, its connection with related discussions in other dialogues, and its implicaiton for the interpretation of Plato's metaphysics.

Author : Scott Porter Consigny
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034244
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gorgias, Sophist and Artist written by Scott Porter Consigny and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes depicted him as a barbaric sycophant, Plato as a shallow opportunist, and Aristotle as an inept stylist, but the Greek teacher of rhetoric Gorgias of Leontini (483-375 BCE) has been again attracting attention from scholars. Consigny (English, Iowa State U.) articulates a coherent account of the enigmatic thinker and writer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : G. B. Kerferd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521283571
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sophistic Movement written by G. B. Kerferd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-09-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a new overall interpretation of their thought. Since Plato first animadverted on their activities, the Sophists have commonly been presented as little better than intellectual mountebanks - a picture which Professor Kerferd forcefully challenges here. Interpreting the evidence with care, he shows them to have been part of an exciting and historically crucial intellectual movement. At the centre of their teaching was a form of relativism, most famously expressed by Protagoras as 'Man is the measure of all things', and which they developed in a wide range of views - on knowledge and argument, virtue, government, society, and the gods. On all these subjects the Sophists did far more than simply provoke Plato to thought. Their contributions were substantial and serious; they inaugurated the debate on many central philosophical questions and decisively shifted the focus of philosophical attention from the cosmos to man.

Author : William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sophists written by William Keith Chambers Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253216298
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Sophist written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-09 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25, which was devoted to an interpretation of Plato and Aristotle. Published for the first time in German in 1992 as volume 19 of Heidegger's Collected Works, it is a major text not only because of its intrinsic importance as an interpretation of the Greek thinkers, but also because of its close, complementary relationship to Being and Time, composed in the same period. In Plato's Sophist, Heidegger approaches Plato through Aristotle, devoting the first part of the lectures to an extended commentary on Book VI of the Nichomachean Ethics. In a line-by-line interpretation of Plato's later dialogue, the Sophist, Heidegger then takes up the relation of Being and non-being, the ontological problematic that forms the essential link between Greek philosophy and Heidegger's thought.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585105058
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates and the Sophists written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of four of Plato’s dialogue (Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus) that explores the topic of sophistry and philosophy, a key concept at the source of Western thought. Includes notes and an introductory essay. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.

Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226670325
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Sophist written by Plato and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-06-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these translations can be read separately or as a trilogy. Each includes an introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive commentary that examines the trilogy's motifs and relationships. "Seth Benardete is one of the very few contemporary classicists who combine the highest philological competence with a subtlety and taste that approximate that of the ancients. At the same time, he as set himself the entirely modern hermeneutical task of uncovering what the ancients preferred to keep veiled, of making explicit what they indicated, and hence...of showing the naked ugliness of artificial beauty."—Stanley Rose, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Seth Benardete (1930-2001) was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author or translator of many books, most recently The Argument of the Action, Plato's "Laws," and Plato's "Symposium," all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Author : Barbara Cassin
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823285766
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacques the Sophist written by Barbara Cassin and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy’s negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry’s emphasis on words and performativity over the fetishization of truth makes it an essential part of our world’s cultural, political, and philosophical repertoire. In this dazzling book, Barbara Cassin, who has done more than anyone to reclaim a mode of thought that traditional philosophy disavows, shows how the sophistical tradition has survived in the work of psychoanalysis. In a highly original rereading of the writings and seminars of Jacques Lacan, together with works of Freud and others, Cassin shows how psychoanalysis, like the sophists, challenges the very foundations of scientific rationality. In taking seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation, the analyst, like the sophist, allows performance, signifier, and inconsistency to reshape truth. This witty, brilliant tour de force celebrates how psychoanalysts have become our culture’s key dissidents and register, in Lacan’s words, “the presence of the sophist in our time.”

Author : David D. Corey
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438456174
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sophists in Plato's Dialogues written by David D. Corey and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws out numerous affinities between the sophists and Socrates in Plato’s dialogues. Are the sophists merely another group of villains in Plato’s dialogues, no different than amoral rhetoricians such as Thrasymachus, Callicles, and Polus? Building on a wave of recent interest in the Greek sophists, The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues argues that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, there exist important affinities between Socrates and the sophists he engages in conversation. Both focused squarely on aret? (virtue or excellence). Both employed rhetorical techniques of refutation, revisionary myth construction, esotericism, and irony. Both engaged in similar ways of minimizing the potential friction that sometimes arises between intellectuals and the city. Perhaps the most important affinity between Socrates and the sophists, David D. Corey argues, was their mutual recognition of a basic epistemological insight—that appearances (phainomena) both physical and intellectual were vexingly unstable. Such things as justice, beauty, piety, and nobility are susceptible to radical change depending upon the angle from which they are viewed. Socrates uses the sophists and sometimes plays the role of sophist himself in order to awaken interlocutors and readers from their dogmatic slumber. This in turn generates wonder (thaumas), which, according to Socrates, is nothing other than the beginning of philosophy.

Author : Marina McCoy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521175371
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists written by Marina McCoy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists through a thematic treatment of six different Platonic dialogues, including Apology, Protagoras, Gorgias, Republic, Sophist, and Phaedras. She argues that Plato presents the philosopher and the sophist as difficult to distinguish, insofar as both use rhetoric as part of their arguments. Plato does not present philosophy as rhetoric-free, but rather shows that rhetoric is an integral part of the practice of philosophy.